ABT 0860 - 0943

ID Number: I51235

Notes

"Born: Not Known - Died: 943 - Marriage: Not Known - Offspring:
Indulf, Cellach, and a daughter. The eldest son of Aed,
Constantine II had one of the longest reigns in early history.
Keeping at bay the Danish invaders and securing his hold on
Alba, Constantine II even managed to break through passed the
Clyde border and into southern Scotland bring him, not only face
to face with the English Anglo-Saxons for the first time, but
also into conflict. This then started the English / Scottish
rivalry. Not only was he successfully defending against their
raiding, but also he managed to pull off a lot of his own. This
waring was to last for centuries.

When his brother Donald was passed the throne of Strathclyde,
after the death of the last British King there in 908, the House
of Alpin had at last secured it's entire grip on Scotland.

In 904 he defeated the Norse in the northern regions and they
finally withdrew their threat. In 912 he turned his attention to
the Scandinavians in the south, but in 915 he himself withdrew
and retreated north. In 927 the fighting was ceased as the
English had managed to unite the others who were also defending
against the Dane's, and that combined army drove them out.
Constantine II had now recognized a border between Scotland and
England.

Peace reigned between the two kingdoms until King Athelstan of
England invaded Scotland and took Constantine's son hostage.
Three years passed and Constantine struck back with a vengeance,
but it was not enough, and in 937 the Scots were defeated and
slaughtered in Brunanburgh. Constantine himself managed to
survive.

Defeated and bruised he stopped his fighting and spent more time
defending against the, once again, angry Dane's who were driving
further north. In 943 having watched his armies defeated and his
kingdom getting smaller, he abdicated his throne and spent his
remaining years in a monastery. Some say it was not through
choice."

Notes

"The great king, Mailcun, reigned among the Britons, i.e., in
the district of Guenedota, because his great-great-grandfather,
Cunedda, with his twelve sons, had come before from the
left-hand part, i.e., from the country which is called Manau
Gustodin, one hundred and forty-six years before Mailcun
reigned, and expelled the Scots with much slaughter from those
countries, and they never returned again to inhabit them."

547 In this year there was a great plague in which Maelgwn, king
of Gwynedd, died.